Stroke News

A quality improvement project was implemented at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Thunder Bay to improve rehabilitation intensity time on the unit. The project team brainstormed with staff, clients and caregivers to find solutions to get closer to the three hour/day best practice target....

If you've entered La Verendrye Hospital (Fort Frances) using the ramp access outside of the E.R. department recently, you may just have noticed a little something extra. On the wall opposite the registration desk is a map of a different kind. ...

May 2019

POSTER Workshop Description: This one-day workshop provides an opportunity for health care professionals to gain insight into treating the individual with ataxia. Treating the individual with ataxia can often be a very challenging experience for the clinician. Perhaps this is because we have focused on addressing the clinical symptoms rather than the underlying impairments. This workshop will explore primary impairments present in the individual with ataxia, current theoretical evidence and treatment strategies using a NDT approach. The overall objective of…

One day Acute Stroke Best Practices Workshop. The focus is on acute stroke and integrating stroke best practices, with the goal of optimizing care. The program includes: a variety of topics pertaining to acute stroke, including updates on Code Stroke and available interventions and an opportunity to participate in a Mock Code Stroke.

Brain Injury Association of Thunder Bay and Area Social and Support Group Offering education, activities, support and socialization for people with brain injuries and their family / caregivers. Tell your friends. Concurrent drop in groups for survivors and caregivers. Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Location: Partners in Rehab, 79 N. Court Street (across from Safeway on Court) Cost: Free For more information: Karen Pontello (807) 683-9500

Enhancing Stroke Core Competency This ia an excellent opportunity to work towards your professional college's continuing education requirements for 2019. Available face to face in Thunder Bay and via videoconferencing to Northwestern Ontario. Registration is required by January 15th by contacting Esme French at frenche@tbh.net and providing your name, profession, employer and email address. Participation in the January 30th session is mandatory for the course introduction, with certificates provided for each module completed during the series. You do not have…

Central East Stroke Network is pleased to offer a webinar on What is community reintegration and how can we better promote it? Speaker: Dr. Mary Egan This webinar will be of interest to healthcare professionals across the care continuum who are working with individuals post-stroke. Objectives: reflect on individual and program concepts of community reintegration introduce the concept of Personal Projects* and the usefulness of this concept in stroke rehabilitation refine an understanding of the following ingredients of return to…

POSTER Event Name: RehabWeek 2019 Date: June 24-28, 2019 Location: Toronto Ontario Website for more information: https://www.rehabweek.org/ RehabWeek 2019 RehabWeek is a week-long event that brings together different conferences in the field of rehabilitation technology at the same time and place in order to foster cross-disciplinary communication and the development of relationships between different players. Includes:• the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS) • the International Consortium on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) • the International Industry Society in Advanced Rehabilitation Technology…